This is kind of a sad story…Culp had to get the transplant and go through all that but meanwhile her husband only got seven years in jail. That’s all kinds of awful and just a fed up situation for Ms. Culp.

HOWEVER, is this really the best we have for facial reconstruction? She looks like she has a Lego head. And for a woman that once looked like this (i.e. not bad at all), that’s bordering on tragic. One would think that we would have perfected this science after the smash hit film Face Off. But science rarely heeds the lessons of Nicolas Cage movies as much as they should.

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Anonymous commenters on the Internet are kind of douchebags. Like they hate everything. “But Chris,” you ask innocently fearing my drunken rage, “You also hate everything. How are you different?” Well reader, great question I fictionally made you ask. I say this stuff on this site and I’m always accountable in the comments or here. I’ll always be here. But some ass named Jackoffcharlie on YouTube has no accountability, nothing to answer for, and often just trashes crap for the sake of it. Including this kid and his kind-of-gayness.

So in spite of the slings and arrows thrown ChristianU2Uber’s way, I offer him my friendship. You made me laugh, intentionally or not. You can throw a hissyfit for my amusement any time, kiddo.

[do the kid a favor and check out his YouTube page]

Sixteen-year-old Aaron Fotheringham – known as ‘Wheels’ – got official recognition last month, even though he has been doing them for two years.

He takes his specially made wheelchair on to skate ramps in Las Vegas, where he has become a something of a celebrity in the skate scene.

He said: “It feels awesome to have the record.”

Aaron invented a sport that he calls “hardcore sitting” – using a wheelchair to perform moves more often seen done on skateboards or BMX bikes.

He has been doing stunts since the age of nine when his elder brother Brian took him to their local skate park. Brian encouraged him to go down a ramp and the obsession was born.

Now Aaron gets flown all over the world to perform stunts and spends at least three hours a day practising. He has become a role model to many young people who use wheelchairs.

On the plus side, that’s pretty amazing and it really shows a lot of courage and dedication. Honestly, the kid is inspirational and I truly believe it’s awesome that someone dealt a crapty hand in life is doing what they can with it.

On the down side, his legs and genitals might as well be made out of leprechauns or genies because they’d be just as functional if they didn’t exist. They’re useless, just dangling there. You might as well just tie spaghetti to your waist and call it a day.

(seriously though, the kid is kind of awesome and worthy of praise)

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Banished to the basement, the 29-year-old mother with a childlike mind and another baby on the way had little more than a thin rug and a mattress to call her own on the chilly concrete floor.

Dorothy Dixon ate what she could forage from the refrigerator upstairs, where housemates used her for target practice with BBs, burned her with a glue gun and doused her with scalding liquid that peeled away her skin.

They torched what few clothes she had, so she walked around naked. They often pummeled her with an aluminum bat or metal handle.

Dixon — six months pregnant — died after weeks of abuse. Police have charged two adults, three teenagers and a 12-year-old boy with murder in the case that has repulsed many in this Mississippi River town.

“This is heartbreaking,” police Lt. David Hayes said. “It was almost as though they were making fun of the abuse they were administering. This woman was almost like living in a prison.”

Investigators put much of the blame on Michelle Riley, 35, who they said befriended Dixon but pocketed monthly Social Security checks she got because of her developmental delays.

Are you even remotely shocked that people that look like the above would be doing something like this? Like if you had asked me to draw a picture of what the type of person to do this would look like…well, it’d probably be a rudimentary stick figure with a Mexican mustache. But I’d have intended for it to look like those people above.

I guess though that if you’re going to take ownership of a developmentally disabled pregnant woman, this is kind of what you have to do. Like what other uses for her do you have? She can’t like, read you books or solve complex mathematical equations for you. Oh and forget having her file your taxes (unless you want to declare a cartoon drawing of a kitty mixed with seminal fluid as a dependent). So yeah, I guess it’s logical. Probably not very sporting, but logical.